Alliance for Innovation and Justice

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Alliance for Innovation & Justice
Party leader Haluk Yildiz
Secretary General Sabahattin Çakıral
founding 2010
Place of foundation Cologne
Headquarters Bonn
Alignment Migrant Policy
Conservatism
Bundestag seats 0
Government grants € 0.00 (2009)
Number of members approx. 2000
Minimum age 16 years
Website bigpartei.de

The Alliance for Innovation and Justice (abbreviation: BIG, spelling: Alliance for Innovation & Justice ) is a small German party founded in Cologne in 2010 . It is one of the first parties founded by Muslims in Germany and intends to campaign in particular for the interests of migrants and their social integration in Germany.

founding

In March 2010, the BIG in Cologne was founded through the merger of three regional electoral associations from Bonn, Cologne and Gelsenkirchen.

Alliance for Peace & Fairness

The Bonn Alliance for Peace & Fairness (BFF) was founded on June 30th, 2009 by Haluk Yildiz and presented at a press conference on August 19th, 2009. The BFF emerged from the structures of the Council of Muslims in Bonn , which was founded in 2006 as a result of Yildiz's commitment and on the occasion of the cartoon dispute and to which two mosque associations monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution belong. Yildiz, who was both the first spokesman for the “Council of Muslims in Bonn” and became the founding chairman of the BFF, stated that the BFF did not see itself as the political arm of the “Council of Muslims in Bonn”, but as an independent association. Chairman of the newly founded BFF was Yildiz, the second chairman Baasem Jürgen Kannich. In the run-up to the local elections in Bonn on August 30, 2009 , Yildiz had drawn up the bill that around 30,000 Muslims live in Bonn, of which around 7,000 are eligible to vote. "If only a part of it gives us their vote, we will certainly get into the city council," said Yildiz. In Bonn mosques called for the election of the BFF, many of the around 50 BFF members were born in Germany, all of them were Muslims. Based on 2,732 votes (2.1 percent), the BFF received two seats in the Bonn city council . The second seat next to Yildiz took over Hülya Dogan, who was also active for many years in the Council of Muslims in Bonn and after the election declared that she was "not only as Hülya Dogan in the city council, but also representative of all women with headscarves".

fusion

Since the merger to form the BIG party in 2010, the Bonn BFF has been called "BIG Bonn". The similarly structured "Citizens' Initiative Gelsenkirchen" was also able to send two city councilors to the city council after the results of the local elections in Gelsenkirchen on August 30, 2009 (3.7%). The “Alternative Bürgerinitiative Köln” (ABI Köln) did not receive enough votes for mandates in the local elections in Cologne in 2009 . In February 2010 the electoral associations in Gelsenkirchen and Bonn also drew up their own electoral lists for the foreigners' council elections .

The merger of the three electoral associations to form the BIG took place in Cologne in March 2010, shortly before the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia on May 9, 2010.

Connection of the “Muslim Democratic Union” (MDU) in 2014

In March 2014, the Muslim Democratic Union (MDU) , which is predominantly active in Lower Saxony, joined the BIG. In the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2013, the MDU had 210 votes nationwide (0.005%). The MDU included many members of the Muslim market operator family Özoguz. The MDU took part in the anti-Israel annual al-Quds Day demonstration in Berlin in 2013 with banners and leaflets . The chairman and spokesman of the MDU, Bilal Uwe Wilbert, member of the BIG board from 2014, was one of the keynote speakers at the Al-Quds demonstration in 2013 and 2014 in Berlin.

Hans-Werner Wargel , President of the Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution , said about the MDU in 2012: The MDU obviously wants to fight democracy with the means of democracy. His findings show that Islamists sometimes disguise themselves with a democratic facade. On the MDU homepage in 2012 there was a fatwa , an Islamic legal opinion, with the statement “Everyone who is active in democracy and encourages others to participate is in great danger”. The “democratic system” is against Islam. In the fatwa, democracy is also referred to as shirk , polytheism. The author of the fatwa for these allegations is the Saudi scholar Sheikh Salih al Munajjid, says the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The man is considered "very prominent" among Salafists.

organization

Alliance for Innovation and Justice

Haluk Yildiz, the former chairman of the Bonn electoral association BFF, became the BIG party chairman. Ismet Misirlioglu, member of the advisory board of the Inssan mosque association and former head of the Berlin office of Islamic Relief Germany, is the deputy federal chairman of the BIG and regional chairman of BIG-Berlin . Another member of the BIG federal board is Aiman ​​El-Attar from the Islamic Center Aachen (IZA), where Eva-Maria El-Shabassy is active in the IZA's Islamic women's initiative, which also makes statements on NRW education policy for BIG.

The Hamburg BIG state chairman Yasar Erdogan was chairman of the Hamburg branch of the Union of European-Turkish Democrats (UETD). The Bremen BIG state chairman Sahin Salbars was General Secretary of the UETD in Bremen until 2010. Baden-Württemberg's BIG-state chairman Yasar Mert, who in the 2004 European elections for the former Minor party FACT of Jamal Karsli wanted to run, also engaged in UETD in Baden-Wuerttemberg.

According to the party, BIG has 350 members in NRW (as of 2010). A closed meeting of the BIG party took place on December 18, 2010 in Istanbul . In the middle of 2011, BIG Berlin stated that it had 70 active members. According to party chairman Yildiz, the federal party had more than 1,000 party members in mid-2011 and around 700 in mid-2013. BIG uses election posters and campaign spots in Turkish, German and Arabic for election advertising.

According to the Berlin state chairman, Misirlioglu, the party is financed exclusively through donations and membership fees.

Young alliance for innovation and justice

On November 1, 2016, the then BIG youth coordinator Tolga Özgül founded the party's youth organization, the Young Alliance for Innovation and Justice ( JuBIG for short ). Tolga Özgül was the federal chairman of the JuBIG from 2016 to 2018.

Participation in elections

Since the party was founded in 2010, BIG has not been able to win any seats, except for the re-election of Haluk Yildiz to the Bonn city council.

BIG ran for the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia on May 9, 2010 with top candidate Haluk Yildiz. Together with the then BIG General Secretary Amin Thomas Bongartz, he declared in April that jumping the five percent hurdle was not an illusion and believed 400,000 votes to be feasible. In May they named “10,000 votes” as the election target in NRW. BIG reached a second vote share of 0.2% (13,863 second votes), so that could five-percent hurdle not overcome the NRW state parliament and got less than 1 percent of the valid votes cast no election expenses reimbursement from State funds.

The party received 3,169 votes (0.1%) in the Hamburg state election on February 20, 2011 and was unable to win a seat. Even in the state elections in Baden-Württemberg on March 27, 2011 , BIG did not receive a mandate with 3,463 votes (0.1%) nationwide.

BIG was allowed to vote in three cities in the Hessian local elections in March 2011 and received 0.2% of the votes in Frankfurt, 0.4% in Darmstadt and 0.3% in Wiesbaden.

The party also wanted to participate in the general election in Bremen on May 22, 2011 , but withdrew from its plan in favor of the Bremen Integration Party . In the simultaneous local elections, BIG chairman Sahin Salbars, who is standing in the 06 Gröpelingen advisory board area, missed a seat with 2.6% (1165 votes).

The party entered the election for the Berlin House of Representatives on September 18, 2011 , and won no mandate with 0.5% of the second vote.

In the early state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2012 , the party participated with a state list and achieved 10,715 votes (0.1%) nationwide, which means a decrease of 3,148 votes compared to the 2010 state election.

BIG ran for the 2013 federal election in the states of Berlin, North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg and received 2,680 first votes (0.0%) and 17,743 second votes (0.0%) nationwide. In 2011 the party declared: “In ten years we will be in government”.

In the Bonn local elections in 2014 , BIG lost one of the two seats on the Bonn city council, as the party only received 1,943 votes (1.4%).

In the 2016 election to the Berlin House of Representatives, the party only ran in two constituencies. One of the two candidates was the controversial activist Martin Lejeune , who in the constituency of Neukölln 3 won 0.4 percent with 73 votes, 3.5 percent less than the BIG candidate in the previous election.

In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2017 , the party received 17,421 second votes (0.21%). In the Bundestag election in the same year, the party did not run.

The party ran for the European elections on May 26, 2019 with its founder and top candidate Haluk Yildiz.

Profile and Discourses

The party's demands are the strengthening of equal opportunities (especially in the education sector) and the integration of migrants. The party also has a strong social policy focus. On the occasion of the 2018 state report of the UN Social Council, in which Germany was criticized for existing social grievances, the party demanded in a press release the implementation of a “humane social policy”. It is necessary to counteract the care shortage and child poverty efficiently. In addition, to secure the subsistence level and to create humane living conditions, the basic security and the minimum wage would have to be increased significantly. In education policy, she advocates a restructuring of the school system and in particular calls for improved language support for children and greater responsibility for the universities. In terms of integration policy, the party advocates “maintaining the cultural identity” of migrants in its basic program. With regard to the economy program, BIG advocates an interest-free economic system. Those affected should decide for themselves whether or not to take part in co- educational swimming and physical education classes. Specifically, BIG calls for a right to dual citizenship , easier family reunification and local right to vote for foreigners . According to the Federal Center for Political Education , the focus areas of economy, internal security, family as well as environment and energy policy mentioned in 2010 consisted of general declarations of intent. Among other things, the social importance of the family, which is understood as the union of men and women and requires state support, is emphasized.

The party is seen by some observers as an offshoot of the Turkish ruling party AKP , led by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , with which there is a non-transparent relationship. Party officials have repeatedly contradicted this and stated that there was no connection whatsoever with the AKP. According to the party itself, the allegations are a smear campaign that serves exclusively political goals.

The online magazine Telepolis finds that not only the name "Alliance for Innovation & Justice" (Turkish: Yenilik ve Adalet Partisi ) is reminiscent of the Turkish AKP (in German: "Party for Justice and Recovery", Turkish Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi ), and even if the party expressly does not want to appear as an Islamic party, it has nothing to do with "multi-cultural". According to the German political party law , branches of foreign parties are not allowed to participate in elections in Germany and according to the Turkish constitution , Turkish parties are prohibited from organizing abroad. Federal Chairman Haluk Yildiz stated that there was “absolutely zero connection” to the AKP, that “all parties in Turkey had been visited individually to make one thing clear: that we neither want an organic nor an ideological connection”. Nevzat Yalcintas, a founder of the Turkish AKP party, appeared at a BIG election campaign event in Berlin and asked for support for BIG. The establishment of the BIG was also welcomed by the Islamic Community of Germany , on behalf of its long-time chairman Ibrahim El-Zayat , who is also a trustee of Islamic Relief .

January 2011, the chairman Haluk Yildiz stated in an interview with the Express (regional edition Bonn) on January 21: "If the protection of the Constitution is so sure that there are potential assassins in Bonn, then they should arrest them". Compared to the General-Anzeiger Bonn, he considered an increase of ten civil servants in the field of combating Islamic extremism at the Bonn State Security to be “excessive”. Instead, the fanatics should be approached and dialogue sought.

In a leaflet entitled “Protect all children! BIG party against school subject gay ”, BIG polemicized against homosexuality and described it as“ minority sexuality ”, from which children had to be protected. The Kreuzberg candidate Ismail Özkanli declared that Berlin children had to be protected from “immorality”, the BIG top candidate Ismet Misirlioglu said that they wanted to prevent future schoolchildren from making homosexuality “palatable”. The leaflet claims that teaching proposals that the Berlin Senate had developed in 2006 under the title “Lesbian and Gay Lifestyles” for secondary schools should be adopted for teaching by first graders. The party chairman Yildiz countered the public criticism of the leaflet that it was not directed against homosexuals, but against the school policy of the Berlin Senate.

In the 2011 election campaign in Berlin, BIG ran a poster campaign against the SPD politician and bestselling author Thilo Sarrazin . One of these campaign posters attracted attention for its misspellings explained by the poster printing in China.

During the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2012, BIG demanded a ban on campaign posters for the state party Citizens' Movement pro NRW and the examination of a prohibition procedure against the party.

Together with a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in local politics, BIG accused Bonn's Lord Mayor Jürgen Nimptsch (SPD) of supporting a “nationalist organization” with the Jewish National Fund (JNF). The Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation criticized the party for this in sharp words: “We ask ourselves why BIG is choosing a campaign for more rule of law in democratic Israel. The synagogue community in Bonn should not be criticized for supporting this JNF development program. "

In the federal election campaign in 2013 she advertised a. a. with homophobic posters on which it was declared by means of inequality signs and photos that a gay couple is something different from a straight one. Also in 2019, the state board chairman of Bremen presented this poster to the BIG party in a Facebook post. For the 2019 European elections, the BIG party campaigned, among other things, that eligible voters can use their vote to protect children from “gender sexualization in schools”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Minutes of the 1st meeting of the Federal Electoral Committee for the 2013 Bundestag election on July 4 and 5, 2013 in Berlin ( Memento of April 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 423 kB), page 61
  2. ↑ http://www.bpb.de/politik/wahlen/wer-haben-zur-wahl/bundestag-2013/165527/big
  3. ↑ BIG statutes § 3 (1) ( Memento of January 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 375 kB)
  4. ↑ a b c d e Lenz Jacobsen: Election campaign for the headscarf . In: Spiegel Online , May 7, 2010.
  5. ↑ Ayyub Mühlbauer: Good advice is expensive. Islamic newspaper. January 30, 2008
  6. ↑ a b Report: Council of Muslims founded in Bonn. Michael A. Schmiedel, Interreligious Circular for Cologne / Bonn and the Surrounding Area No. 123 (October 4, 2006)
  7. ↑ Bonn Muslims join forces By Frank Vallender, General-Anzeiger Bonn of September 21, 2006
  8. ↑ a b “Unite instead of splitting” In the local elections, a new electoral alliance, consisting mainly of Muslims, comes up. by Yasin Alder, Bonn, IZ August 21, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bffbonn.bff-bonn.de
  9. ↑ a b Jürgen Zurheide: Haluk Yildiz: "We were twice as good as expected" In: Der Tagesspiegel from September 2, 2009
  10. ^ BIG party: A contradiction in terms by Onur Kodaş, Yeni Hayat May 31, 2010
  11. ^ With a headscarf in the Bonn City Council - Not just approval for the headscarf wearer By Maria Kümpel, WDR October 30, 2009
  12. ↑ Local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia: People from Cologne of Turkish origin want to get involved. By Özlem Topcu, Die Zeit, September 6, 2009
  13. ^ "Citizens' Initiative Gelsenkirchen Integration Council List" (BIG IRL): 975 votes (31.8%); Election participation 11.2% of 27,618 eligible voters, including postal voters 48.4%; Election of the Integration Council February 7th 2010, City of Gelsenkirchen
  14. ↑ BFF offshoot “Alliance for Bonn”: 17.76% (3 seats); Turnout 7.76% of 33,000 eligible voters; Integration Council election on February 7, 2010, City of Bonn ( Memento from October 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ MDU joins the BIG party . Declaration by the former federal chairman of the MDU, www.mdu-niedersachsen.de
  16. ↑ Lower Saxony state election 2013, official final result landeswahlleiter.niedersachsen.de
  17. ↑ Press release on the establishment of the Delmenhorst district association
  18. ↑ New establishment - Muslim party wants to abolish the interest system - Former MDU district association now operates under the name BIG by Wolfgang Bednarz, Nordwest-Zeitung , April 16, 2014
  19. ↑ Berlin: Incitement against Israel - About 800 participants protested at the "Al-Quds" demo by Jan Tölva, Jüdische Allgemeine , August 4, 2013
  20. ↑ Qudstag 2013-6 - Speech by Bilal Uwe Wilbert (Muslim Democratic Union, MDU)
  21. ↑ Qudstag 2014 Berlin - Speech by Bilal Uwe Wilbert (BIG Party)
  22. ↑ August 29, 2012 in Der Tagesspiegel
  23. ^ Advisory Board Inssan eV, accessed on September 20, 2011
  24. ↑ a b c Islamic Migrants Party joins NRW Helmut Lorscheid , Telepolis article from April 6, 2010
  25. ^ The BIG Germany Federal Party ( Memento from May 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  26. ↑ BIG will take part in elections ( Memento from January 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Sabah Avrupa January 3, 2011
  27. ↑ Alliance for Innovation and Justice (short name: BIG) ( Memento from January 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 375 kB) Federal Returning Officer
  28. ↑ Christian-Islamic Women's Talk, Diocese of Aachen, May 19, 2011
  29. ↑ Zaman from April 15, 2010 ( Memento from October 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), BIG the new party in Germany ( Memento from October 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  30. ↑ Yasar Erdogan Chairman of the Hamburg branch, Union of European-Turkish Democrats
  31. ^ BIG party state association Bremen state chairman: Sahin Salbars
  32. ↑ Sahin Salbars: About me
  33. ↑ Press release by Yasar Mert on the European elections ( memento of October 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) January 26, 2004, FAKT party candidates for the 2004 European elections ( memento of October 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  34. ↑ Islamic and Western World (PDF; 245 kB) Event in the Intercultural Dialogue series of the Baden-Württemberg State Office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation on Friday, October 20, 2006
  35. ↑ a b c BIG party profile for the state election of North Rhine-Westphalia 2010 ( Memento from May 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), BIG party profile for the state election of North Rhine-Westphalia 2012 , Federal Agency for Civic Education by Martin Florack, University of Duisburg-Essen
  36. ↑ BIG wants to mobilize migrants. The "Alliance for Innovation and Justice" has founded a district association in Frankfurt. By Michael Kelber, FAZ December 28, 2010
  37. ^ A b c d Sebastian Leber : Berlin election - "School subject gay" Catching votes with prejudices . In: Tagesspiegel September 3, 2011
  38. ↑ a b Multicultural party fights against migrant stigma Interview with Haluk Yildiz by Günther Lachmann, Welt online, August 18, 2011
  39. ↑ BIG election advertising on YouTube : BIG Yenilik ve Adalet Partisi (Turkish) , BIG party election spot 2011 (Turkish) ( with German subtitles ), BIG party Berlin 2011 election advertising (Turkish) , BIG party election commercial for the Berlin House of Representatives election 2011 (German ) , BIG party - direct candidate Abdelaaziz Fachrou (Arabic)
  40. ↑ a b c d e Der Spiegel : Migrants Party BIG. Erdogan's Berlin lobby group, accessed on September 16, 2011.
  41. ↑ Young Muslims want to found a regional association in Coburg. inFranken.de, accessed on September 12, 2017 .
  42. ↑ About Tolga Özgül on Özgül's homepage, https://tolgaozgul.wordpress.com/
  43. ^ Result of the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia 2010
  44. ↑ Section 18 (4) of the Political Parties Act
  45. ↑ Party profiles BpB for the state elections in Baden-Württemberg 2011
  46. ^ Preliminary result of the state elections on March 27, 2011 Baden-Württemberg
  47. ↑ Trend result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011 Frankfurt am Main
  48. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau: Two Muslim parties want to run (January 28, 2011)
  49. ↑ Municipal election 2011, trend result Darmstadt
  50. ↑ Wiesbadener Kurier: Four new ones are on the list ( Memento from January 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  51. ↑ Trend result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011 Wiesbaden
  52. ↑ Advisory Board 06-Gröpelingen, 2011 Preliminary final result (23 electoral districts) ( Memento from June 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ): BIG 1165 votes (2.6%)
  53. ↑ Report by the State Returning Officer for Berlin (PDF; 4.9 MB)
  54. ^ Wahlrecht.de: Result of the state election 2012 - absolute and relative , accessed on May 29, 2012.
  55. ↑ wahlrecht.de: Approved state lists , federal election 2013 - approval of state lists, according to the meeting on July 26, 2013 of the state election committees
  56. ↑ Local elections 2014, preliminary result for: 314000 Krfr. City of Bonn , The Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs
  57. ↑ Official result of constituency Neukölln 3
  58. ↑ 2017 Bundestag election: details on all candidate parties. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
  59. ↑ a b c BIG Germany: Press release on the state report of the UN Social Council. In: www.big-deutschland.de. BIG Party Germany, December 2018, accessed on February 26, 2019 (German).
  60. ↑ a b Berlin election 2011: The challengers (video)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Heike Canbulat, BIG (0:43:15 - 0:48:45) KLIPP & KLAR ( memento from October 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), rbb Thursday September 1, 2011 20:15; Video Heike Canbulat (BIG Party) at KLIPP & KLAR (RBB, September 1, 2011)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ardmediathek.de
  61. ↑ BIG party election spot 2011 (Turkish with German subtitles)
  62. ↑ a b H. Yildiz (BIG party): “We are completely independent of the AKP”. In: Andere-Partments.de. September 17, 2012, accessed January 25, 2019 .
  63. ↑ BIG Partisi 2011 election advertising BIG Yenilik ve Adalet Partisi
  64. ↑ § 2 Paragraph 3, § 25 Paragraph 2 Point 3 of the Law on Political Parties
  65. ↑ Article 69 Constitution of the Republic of Turkey (German, as of January 1, 2011; PDF; 674 kB) Translation Prof. Dr. Christian Rumpf
  66. ↑ Berlin state election - Haluk Yıldız (BIG): “We have Muslims and Christians in the party” Interview by Felix Kubach, German Turkish News , published on September 17, 2011
  67. ↑ Yalçıntaş BİG için oy istedi BIG ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Zaman (daily newspaper) September 12, 2011
  68. ↑ Interview by Ibrahim F El-Zayat with igd-online April 26, 2010 ( Memento from August 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  69. ^ Islamist stronghold Bonn: Politicians welcome police reinforcement General-Anzeiger Bonn of January 29, 2011
  70. ↑ a b Islamic Party incites against gays in the election campaign By Dennis Klein, queer.de August 16, 2011
  71. ↑ berlin.de ( Memento of November 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 7.9 MB): Handout for the interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary teaching in the upper secondary levels I and II of the Berlin School, for the subjects biology, German, English, Ethics History / Social Studies, Latin, Psychology
  72. ↑ BIG calls for Pro NRW Lokalkompass.de to be banned from May 7, 2012
  73. ↑ Printed matter no. 1213000 in the Bonn council information system
  74. ↑ Criticism of BIG does not stop (not available online), Frank Vallender, General-Anzeiger Bonn, February 13, 2014
  75. ↑ Homophobia in the 2013 federal election campaign. BIG Party: Posters against gay marriage queer.de, September 16, 2013
  76. ↑ Homophobia in 2019 at the BIG party
  77. ↑ BIG Facebook post: “5 reasons why you should vote for the BIG party”